By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people – they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

I couldn’t deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y’know?

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I’m interested in producing a work of art, and unless I hear the thing thoroughly, I would have no reason to put it down at all.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that’s written about you… Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

I thought if I could get television interested in opera, it would make a kind of new thing that would allow composers to build a whole new repertoire.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

Ummm, reach for the stars and keeps your hands on the ground? Something like that? I guess you would end up with your arse in the air.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.

I’d met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, ‘Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with’.

Every time I’m a bit surprised always, what the patterns look like and what the whole thing looks like because, of course, I primarily hear.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he’s actually trying to create his own language.

I just want to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

It’s useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

I like to think I’m straightforward and honest in my dealings with people. I want something good to come out of here cause my name’s on it too.

I’m probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don’t have the balls...

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere – everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we’re all living in different worlds because we’re on different continents.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it’s that inner urge that you want to express when...

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don’t know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I’m a weirdo.